Thinking about Religion
Extending the Cognitive Science of Religion
Authors: Smith, A.
Editors: Wielenberg, E., Nagasawa, Y. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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Thinking about Religion examines cutting-edge breakthroughs from across the sciences concluding that religion persists because the mind is primed for faith, ready to grasp and fiercely defend beliefs that make sense but defy logic.
- About the authors
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Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Co-Director of the John Hick Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (2008). He received the Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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In the Beginning: Reconsidering the Cognitive Science of Religion
Pages 1-34
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Religion in Mind: Religious Thoughts as Mental Representations
Pages 35-55
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Sticky Thinking: Making Sense of Religious Thoughts
Pages 56-75
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Practicing and Preaching: The Psychology of Religious Thinking
Pages 76-94
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God in the Brain: The Neurology of Religious Cognition
Pages 95-117
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Thinking about Religion
- Book Subtitle
- Extending the Cognitive Science of Religion
- Authors
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- A. Smith
- Editors
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- E. Wielenberg
- Y. Nagasawa
- Series Title
- Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-32475-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137324757
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-32474-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-45902-5
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6176
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 258
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